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A huge public pension fund faces an agonizing decision: Should it reinvest in tobacco?
Sixteen years ago, CalPERS, the nation’s largest public pension fund, vaulted to the forefront of the social investing movement by voting to dump its $671 million in tobacco stocks.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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Next Up for Impact Investing: ‘Solve for Market Demand, Not Investor Preferences’
Pioneers in the impact investing field have always wanted to take the movement mainstream. Well, they're getting there. Attendees at the Global Impact Investing Network's Investor Forum 2016 in Amsterdam, when compared to the 2013 forum in London, included more fund managers, more wealthy family advisors and large foundations, more big money people. Now comes education for the bigger players eager to get involved.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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How to Make Money With Impact Investments
Curt LaBelle, managing partner at the Global Health Investment Fund (GHIF), a $108 million private-investment fund structured by J.P. Morgan Chase and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, says the key is to look for companies producing high-volume, low-cost products, mostly in health, education, agriculture, and renewable energy.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Microcredit isn’t dead
The concept — reducing poverty in impoverished countries by giving very small loans to people without collateral — was once the most promising innovation in development economics. But after its inception in the early 1980s and its subsequent explosion in the following decades, one thing was missing: results.
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- Impact Assessment
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Some of the Best Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) Stocks of 2016
There's been a growing movement for investors to care not only about their own financial gain but also about the good of their community. The movement often is called SRI, which stands for socially responsible investing.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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East Africa’s ‘largest’ solar plant now in operation
What is claimed to be East Africa’s largest solar offering is now online in the form of the 10MW PV plant in Soroti, Uganda. Located on just over 13 hectares of land and comprised of 32,680 modules, the facility is also the country’s first grid-connected plant and will provide enough clean energy to power 40,000 homes.
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- Energy, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- renewable energy, solar
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Saudi Arabia: Land of Female-Led Social Entrepreneurship?
When Saudi nonprofit leader Lujain Al Ubaid travels abroad, she often finds herself in the unenviable position of having to explain her culture. Saudi Arabia, the perception goes in the West, suppresses women, forcing them to wear headscarves and forbidding them the chance to get behind the wheel.
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- Impact Assessment
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- North Africa & Near East
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B Lab Honors World’s Leading Impact Investors Using New GIIRS System
B Lab, in partnership with B the Change Media, announced today the honorees of the 2016 Best for the World Funds, celebrating 50 impact investment funds that have created exceptional social and environmental impact, including in areas of microfinance and technology.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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